If Only I Knew That!

In my post regarding setting up codeigniter, I created a debug setting in /application/config/application.php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Debug
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
$config['debug']	= TRUE;

in the constructor of every controller I add

$this->output->enable_profiler($this->config->item('debug'));

Now all I have to do is change the value in the application config to enable/disable profiling globally

I recently had to create a codeigniter site with three main sections and two of the sections needed to appear in directories in the URL’s

• The main site
• Backend user dashboard
• Backend user admin

After setting up several codeigniter based sites with dev/staging/production environments, I thought I’d write up the steps I undertake.

A overview of the steps are:

1. Download CI and upload to hosting environment
2. Rename ‘system’ directory
3. Move ‘application’ directory to public accessible directory
4. Upload and modify index.php
5. Add .htaccess to remove index.php from URL’s
6. Modify ‘config.php’ for domain and remove of index.php form URL’s
7. Add ‘application.php’ specific config file
8. Modify ‘database.php’ config for dev/staging/production
9. Modify the autoload config for regularly used libraries, helpers and application config file